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Author: Dr Ross Walker

To statin or not to statin — that is the question! Part I

By Dr Ross Walker

A study reported at an American Heart Association meeting in California a few years ago which was conducted in Utah in the United States examined the records of 62,000 people who suffered either a heart attack or stroke between 1999 and 2013. The researchers reviewed whether they were taking statins…

Knee osteoarthritis – what is the answer?

By Dr Ross Walker

Recently, during one of my regular Melbourne radio segments, I received a call from a 47-year-old tradesman asking advice about his severe, knee osteoarthritis. After years of working on building sites, both his knees have severely degenerated to the point where he is now in considerable pain, but, like all…

Vaccines — the risk in perspective

By Dr Ross Walker

Despite being presented with scientific facts, not even debatable, there is still this lunatic fringe of anti-vaxxers and many people who remain vaccine hesitant, obtaining all of their information from some form of social media and not health experts who rely on science published in peer-reviewed journals. All of the…

COVID-19 – Is the Delta strain a game changer?

By Dr Ross Walker

With just over 3000 active cases from the Delta variant of the coronavirus in Australia at present, it doesn’t appear that this will be fizzling out, in the near future. Every day, we hear the statistics around the new cases which, although not markedly increasing, are staying concerningly around the…

COVID — the only way out

By Dr Ross Walker

Photo by Matteo Jorjoson on Unsplash As I write this article, half of Australia are in lockdown, which is approximately 12 million people. Hopefully, what I’m about to say will bring some calm and common sense to this crisis affecting so many people’s lives in our Australian community.  n New South Wales…